{"id":326047,"date":"2026-07-01T15:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/326047\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:08","slug":"shumaker-named-to-u-s-womens-national-team-athlete-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/326047\/","title":{"rendered":"Shumaker Named to U.S. Women\u2019s National Team Athlete Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY \u2013 Florida softball sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/taylor-shumaker\/17779\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17779\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Shumaker<\/a> has earned a spot in the U.S. Women&#8217;s National Team (WNT) Athlete Pool, USA Softball announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Shumaker joins fellow Gators <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/jocelyn-erickson\/17774\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17774\" target=\"_blank\">Jocelyn Erickson<\/a> and Skylar Wallace in the 36-member athlete pool. Amanda Lorenz, who was originally named to the WNT Athlete Pool in April, is currently on leave while expecting her first child.<\/p>\n<p>The WNT Athlete Pool will be used to select the 2026 USA Softball Women&#8217;s National Team, which will compete at the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) World Cup Group Stage and the 2026 USA Softball International Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The pool will also serve as the foundation for the program throughout the 2025-28 Olympic quadrennial.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_Hlk63067436\">FOLLOW THE GATORS<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a a=\"\" aria-label=\"FloridaGators.com\" data-uw-original-href=\"http:\/\/www.floridagators.com\/softball\/\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"noreferrer=\" href=\"http:\/\/www.floridagators.com\/softball\/\" in=\"\" new=\"\" noreferrer=\"\" open=\"\" tab=\"\" target=\"_blank\" uw-rm-external-link-id=\"http:\/\/www.floridagators.com\/softball\/$floridagators.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FloridaGators.com<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a a=\"\" aria-label=\"Florida\" data-uw-original-href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GatorsSB\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"noreferrer=\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GatorsSB\" in=\"\" new=\"\" noreferrer=\"\" on=\"\" open=\"\" softball=\"\" tab=\"\" target=\"_blank\" twitter=\"\" uw-rm-external-link-id=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gatorssb$floridasoftballontwitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida Softball on Twitter<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a a=\"\" aria-label=\"Head\" coach=\"\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_TimWalton\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"noreferrer=\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_TimWalton\" in=\"\" new=\"\" noreferrer=\"\" on=\"\" open=\"\" tab=\"\" target=\"_blank\" tim=\"\" twitter=\"\" uw-rm-external-link-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_timwalton$headcoachtimwaltonontwitter\" walton=\"\" walt rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Head Coach\u00a0<\/a><a data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/coaches\/tim-walton\/2094\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/coaches\/tim-walton\/2094\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Walton<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a a=\"\" aria-label=\"Florida\" data-uw-original-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GatorsSB\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"noreferrer=\" facebook=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GatorsSB\" in=\"\" new=\"\" noreferrer=\"\" on=\"\" open=\"\" softball=\"\" tab=\"\" target=\"_blank\" uw-rm-external-link-id=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gatorssb$floridasoftballonfacebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida Softball on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY \u2013 Florida softball sophomore Taylor Shumaker has earned a spot in the U.S. Women&#8217;s National Team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-326047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}